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INDEX TO NEfATOT 18EIEHT8.
Mektings—Live Oak Lodge No. 3, I. O. O.
F.
Special Notices —Ground Kent Notice;
Cherries, A. H. Champion.
Steamship Scukduub—Generate Tranßat
lamlqne Company
Notice op Dissolution—Gurtelman A
Bivline.
Fruits, Etc.— a. H. Champion.
Proposals—John B. Howard. City Sur
veyor.
Auction Sales Small Houses and lots
Nob. 18 and 17 Elliott ward, bv Cl. VV. Lamar;
Hair Mattresses, etc . Valuable Harden Farm,
by .1. McLaughlin & "on; Sundries, by I. I>.
Laßoche’s Sons; Furniture, Groceries, etc.,
by Kennedy & Mallette: a Go al Chance to
Burn Lot. by C. 11. Dorset t.
CHEAP COLUMN ADV KRTI SEIi ENTS— Help
Wanteil; Employment Winlr l; For Rent;
For sale; Persmai; Miscellaneous.
Legal Notice—Absigneo’s notice of Wm.
W. Rrvant.
guards Arsenal C'onkectionekv—Frank
Cooks in.
The Logan romance is said lo be selling
well to tbe lovers of light literature, but |
the Logan boom has been hauled oil (or J
repairs.
Probably Senator Ingalls’ mean attack \
on Gen. Black will be worth a good many j
votes to the Democrats in the ooming i
Illinois election. '
The mistake the Greek and Turkish
rulers made was in not taking warrants |
out against their soldiers and having
them bound over to keep the peace.
When Congress succeeds in suppressing
the manufacture and saleot boa us butter, i
it should take measures to discourage the
manutacture ana sale of bogus patriot
ism.
The President of the Republic of Uru
guay has resigned. It is not certain
whether the people will abuse him for
doing so or present him with a vote of
thanks.
The talk about the organization of a Fe
nian army in Boston to invade Canada is
probably on a par with that about the in
vasion of Manitoba during the Kiel re
bellion.
Blaine the other day used United States
as a plural noun, and it is doubted
whether he has not forgotten the Republi
can doctrine that this couutry is a nation
with a big “N.”
A railroad train to l’ybee beach would
be pretty well patronized these warm af
ternoons. With such a railroad in opera
tioi Savannah would be a very pleasant
summer resort.
The present cool nights ought to have a
good effect on Georgia politics. There
seems to be danger that the process ol
fermentation will go 100 lar in some sec
tions of the Stale.
A German Baron and an American
General have just been convicted of some
very mean pension frauds at New Or
leans. Of course, the General is not a
Confederate Brigadier.
Amidst all the excitement about the
New England fishing smack* and ex-
President Davis' speeches, Jo m Snui man
has kept cool. He bus had enough Ohio
business lo think about of late.
Fifty-seven students were initiated into
the Yale secret societies one day •tie
week. The New liaven Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ought
to look after the overworked goats.
The Maine rivers are saiu to be literally
Jammed with salmon this season. This
shows that there is really no use for the
New Knclai and fisherman to keep fooling
with the British lion’s caudal appendage .
Ex-Gov Smilu's political record is be
ing overhauled. i’lie Gove nor is some,
what of an overhauler himself when he
gets wanned up in a campaign, and bis
antagonists wont he very apt to forget it.
Now that the ueat/ Georgia hoods have
been listed oy to/ 1 New York Stock Ex
change. it Is about time for Henry Clews
to resign his membership in that body.
The {Exchange evidently has more couti
dence la Georgia’s credit thau in Clews’
veracity.
It is announced that Senator Edmunds
has positively declined to permit his mine
to be usd again as a candidate for the
Presidency. Thu Senator knows thut
when a candidate is dea i it is extremely
impolite for him to continue the death
struggle any longer.
There Is Horn • agitation in Boston to
have the law repealed which makes athe
ists incompetent us witnesses in a court
of justice. A Boston paper say s the athe
ists do not possess siitiieient intelligence
to make them competed witnesses, and
quotes: “Toe fool hath said in bis heart,
there is uo God.”
It is asserted tout so far from the Re
publicans baking any ctiancoof capturing
Tennessee, that they will almos. c< plainly
be beaten in that Mate by io.Oub majority,
and mat they will do well if tb"y elect
one Congressman from that State in the
nexteleutiou. The Republican committee
will lie very apt not to waste much
money in Tennessee.
Miij. Bird, iate of the Fifth Cavalry,
has challenged < apt. Snunders for offer
ing a toast to lion. Jef-rsou Davis, and
wants to shoot it out with Winchester
rifles. Tha M jor might, do well to wait
and see bow Farnsworth Post lf*7, G.A it.,
comes out lu t e contest with the Cup.
tlu. dust n• the latter appears to he
■lightly on top iu me controversy.
The Next House.
A good many Democratic Congressmen
seem to have forgotten that the Congres
! sioual elections occur next fall. They do
; not seem to realize that the Repub loans
! are making an extraordinary effort to get
! coutro! of the next House. Not only are
they absent from their posts of duty
i much oltetier than they ought to be, but
they have forgotten, apparently, that the
Democratic party is pledged to an eco
nomical administration of the govern
ment.
Representative Holman says that this
j Congress shows about as great a desire
i to increase appropriations as ever a Re
publican Congress exhibited. There has
been no decrease in the cost of administer
ing the government. On the contrary,
with the exception of the post office ap
propriation bill proper, there has been an
increase in all the appropriations over
those made at the last session of last
Congress. In the appropriation bills
which have already passed the House the
aggregate increase Is about $211.000,U00.
Of course the Republicans do not
preach or practice economy. They never
did. And now when no responsibility
rests upon them they seem to he anxious
to swell the appropriations to as great an
amount as possible. They, together with
reckless and unthinking Democrats, are
able to lead the House into becoming re
sponsible for all sorts of extravagancies.
Frankness compels the admission that
the Democratic House has not yet made
a record that will help the Democratic
party much in the tall elections. Noth
ing has yet been done towards reforming
the tariff, and there does not appear to be
any prospect of reforms ill the line of
economy.
II the President had the power to veto
items n appropriation hills, it is certain
that he would use his veto power pretty
freely. He is ambitious that his admin
istration shall be regarded as aneconomi
cal one. The probabilities are, however,
that this commendable ambition ol his
will not be satisfied.
He has done what he could to carry out
the pledges which are to be fouud in the
Democratic naiional platform. His rec
ommendations and his acts, so far as they
have had anv bearing upon the character
of the government, have all been in the
line of reform.
If the Democrats should meet with de
'eats at the fall elections attempts will oe
made, doubtless, to throw the responsi
bility for them on the President’s civil ser
vice policy. There may tie some who
will believe that the fault is his, but those
who are accustomed to see things as they
are will not be slow in placing the re
sponsibility where it belongs. If every
Democratic member of Congress were to
do bis duty as conscientiously as the
President does bis, and were to
strive as bard as he does
to fulfil! the party's pledges the control
of the next House would remain with the
Democrats beyond the shadow of a doubt.
While it is probable that the Democrats
will win the next House notwithstanding
their mistakes, they will not win it with
ease nor by an Increased majority, as
they might have done had they kept more
clearly in mind the pledges of the national
campaign.
Polygamy Must Go.
The number of polygamists in the Utah
penitentiary is gradually becoming quite
imposing. Doubtless the prosecutions
will go on as long as the prosecuting offi
cers can get sufficient evidence against
the guilty parties.
The answer which Apostle Lorenzo
Snow and forty-seven other polygamous
convicts at present In the penitentiary
have made to the propositon of Gov. West
of that Territory to use bis influence to
secure their pardon it they would promise
to obey the laws shows that they are not
yet In a repentant mood. They declare
that polvcamy is a part of their religion,
and that to give it up would be to aban
don their religion. They declare that they
would rather spend their lives in jail than
to yield any nart of their faith, par
ticularly that part which relates to plural
wives.
It is clear that Apostle Snow and nis
fellow convicts think that they are suffer
ing in a good cause, and that wbat they
I consider martyrdom on their part will be
! the means of largely increasing the num
i bar and power of the Mormons.
The Mormons have passed the threaten
i ing period and have now reached the
i whining period. They hone to excite
! sympathy tor themselves and other law
| breaking Mormons by pleading that their
; religion requires them to practice polyg
amy.
If the authorities remain firm it will
not be long before the next period is
j reached, which will be the period of sub
j mission.
It is pretty certain that the Mormons
have got either to give up their peculiar
institution or leave the country. They
are at liberty to worship in any way they
please, but they are at last beginning to
understand that the government Is in
earnest In its determination to put a stop
to the plural wife business. The laws
are against ft, and the sentiment of the
entire country is against it. Tho Ed
munds law is approved, and the country
would stand a law against, polygamy even
more vigorous than it is.
The mistake that was made st the out
set in dealing with polygamy was that
there was too much lenieuev. If a law
like that now in force had been adopted
when the Mormons Urst located In Utah
there would now he nothing of polygamy
I in the country worth speaking of. Alter
a few more apostles and elders are put into
I the penitentiary, however, it is probabl"
that the Mormon* will begin to see that,
they are yet hardly strong enough to dely
the law, and will yield, though with a had
grace, to the inevitable.
There can hardly be any truth in the
rejKtrt to the eff-et that Doctor Felton Is
fixing to announce himself a an inde
pend’ nt candidate tor Governor. The
Doctor Is a man of pretty good common
aeuse. and beside* It would not take long
tor him to ak the advice of Gen Oartrell.
There is a whole regiment of good men
in the Fifth district, who w u and make
pretty good Congressmen, bui If the peo
ple want to maintain the good opinion ot
iin whole country they will keep Hon.
Nat Hammond lu Congress awhile longer.
The consumption of lumber in this
country has been muon greater than the
supply, a* nearly 20.000,0(10 leel, were
continued by lire, however, the mill inter
e*i* do h,t feel encouraged very much
[ thereby.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. MAY 28, 1836.
Steam and Sailing Vessels.
The debate on the Dunn tree ship bill
has brought about the publication of some
very interesting figures relative to the
steam and sailing tounage of the world,
and to the increase of the tonnage ot mer
chant steam vessels and the decrease oi
the tonnage ol merchant sailing vessels.
The New York Sun luruishes the fol
lowing figures:
TONNAGE OF MERCHANT SAILING VES
SELS.
Percent'
1870. 1888. nve.
United States ... 3.400.<W7 2.1 8,880 10.deo.
Great Britain 6,993,153 4.714.746 32 6 dec.
N.irway A Sweden 1,386.232 1,551.262 33.6 inc.
Germany 1,016.0il 863,611 17.4 dec.
France V 891.528 308. 61 53.3 dec.
May ... 1107.570 848.828 B.4dec.
Russia 316, 76 172,179 86.1 inc.
Spain 545,607 2'2,083 50. dec.
Holland 441,111 277.H4S 36 0 dec.
Greece 375,680 254,760 32.1 dec.
Aualrla 817,780 209.445 31.9 dec.
Total ot t hose
countries 35,6V.7-8 D.goz 505 21.4 doc.
All countries 16,042,498 12 867.875 19.8 dec.
TONNAGE OF MERCHANT STEAM VESSELS.
Percent*
age of in
• IS7. IS I -', create.
United States 513.792 545,187 6.1
Great Britain .1,651.767 6,464 62 291.8
Norway and Sweden 25 954 27 ,682 916.5
Germany 1 >5,131 560,697 439.0
France 212.976 750.061 252.1
Italy 36,358 201.070 453.0
Ku-Bia 28,422 JKUIO 194.9
Spam 7*’.845 363.908 399.1
Holland 39.405 214,538 441 4
Greece 8.267 51.878 14-7.9
Austria 44.312 130.447 194 3
Total of these
countries 2.734.229 9.720.-90 255.5
All countries 2,793,132 10 269,504 267 6
It seems that this country holds the
second place with respect to sailing ves
sels, and the fourth place with respect to
steam vessels. A glance at the percent
ages of increase in the tonnage of steam
vessels of the different countries, how
ever, justifies the conclusion that we
shall not continue to hold the fourth place
very long. The percentage of increase in
our steam vessel tonnage (luring the last
fifteen years is only 6.1 while the increase
in Austria’s steam tonnage—the percent,
age o! whose increase is the smallest of
all the nations mentioned in the list—
was thirty times as great. The figures
show that the increase in the steam ton
nage of France, Norway and Sweden,
and Greece, during the period mentioned,
is something remarkable.
'1 he opponents of free ships claim that
It the free ships policy is adopted all of
our ship yards will be closed and thou
sands of workmen thrown out of employ
ment. They also claim that there is so
much competition in the ocean carrying
trade that there is no longer any profit in
it.
These arguments, of course, have some
force but they are not conclusive. If
there is no profit in tbe ocean carrying
trade, and if it wouldn’t pay this country
to do any greater part of it than it is now
doing our merchants and capitalists
would not purchase ships abroad, even if
a law providing for free ships were en
acted. But there is every reason to think
that If this country could get ships suffi
ciently cheap to enable It to compete in
tbe carrying trade with other nations it
would pav it to engage In such competi
tion. There are two reasons why it would
pay The first is that it would
distribute annually many millions of
dollars In this country that la now paid
to foreign countries, and tbe second is
that it would enable us to Introduce our
manufactures into foreign markets to bet
ter advantage.
Being dependent largely upon the ves
sels ol other nations to carry our manu
factures it is safe to say that we are con
stantly working tinder a great disadvant
age in competing with those nations in
foreign markets. Although there is not
much hope at present that Congress will
pass a law providing for free ships it is
not improbable that such a law will be
passed at no very distant period.
The Lake Itorgne Scheme.
At. last the promoters of the Lake
Borgne outlet scheme have got * report
in its favor from a committee of Congress.
Senator Van Wyck, who has the reputa
tion of being something of a crank, on
behalf of the Senate Committee on the
Improvement of the Mississippi River,
has made a report which takes the post
tion that, all other plans for preventing
overflows in the lower Mississippi valley
having failed, the Lake Borgne plan ought
to be tried.
It has been a good many years since
Capt. Cowden carried this Lake Borgne
scheme to Congress, and he has grown
old while haunting tho Congressional
lobbies buttonholing Congressmen to give
him a bearing. He met with no success
beyond making a convert of Rnpresinta
tive Holman, and he finally turned the
outlet business over to a syndicate of
New Yorkers who. it is said, have some
money to spend on it because thev see a
chance to make soup" money out of it.
The Lake Borgne outlet theory has
been condemned hy many competent en
gineers. They have shown to the satisfac
tion of all who have cared to make them
selves acqu.luted with tb”ir arguments
that an outlet at Lake Borgne would not
prevent the disastrous overflows in the
lower Mississippi valley.
Mr. Van Wyck. however, is just the
sort of a man to be caught by a scheme
like this outlet one. its cheapness is,
perhaps, the first attraction to him, and
the second is that it looks reasonable that
a short cut to the sea ought to empty the
rivet much more rapidly than it can he
emptied by a channel ten times as long as
it is.
It is noticeable that the advocates of
theov.tle' *v*tom never have anything to
say about the Atchafniava outlet. The
Atchatalaya river now carries almost us
much water to the Gull, when the river*
are full, as the Mississippi and >cs, snd yet
the overflows In the Mississippi vallev
are as frequent and disastrous now as
th“y were when the Atchatalaya was
little more than a ditch, snd was spanned
by lalleu trees. Tuere is some satisfac
tion in the thought that it will be some
years before Mr. Van Wyck will he able
to convert Congress into voting millions
of dollars (or the Lake Borgue experi
ment.
A gentleman who has recently visited
ibe counties In the First Congressional
district, south of the Altamubu, state*
that nearly every one ot them are for
Gordon. A similar report comes from
the Second district. There is, however, a
growing feeling that it will be licet to
semi as delegates men of caltn judgment,
who will he competent to act for the best
interest* of the State iu the event of a
close contest for tho nomination, and not
let any candidates endanger the political
peace.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Fixing the Rb port Ml bill tv,
From tbe St. Louie Republican [Dent.)
James (4. Blaine’s “interview” on the (lsh
erien question mak-a his position no plainer,
because It. was too plain to Oe mi-taken be
fore. He is resiioiisilile fur the entire trouble,
and whatever eomplications exist are the re
sult of hi* scheming,
A Scientific President.
From tbe iViehington Poet ( Dim, )
The President’s vetoes of the pension bill
wake an echo of approval throughout the
land. May he not batrusicyi to veto the big
pens on steals if the bills In which thev are
embalmed ever Yea h r his hm d? Ho under
stands the science of vetoes if any President
ever did.
A High Tariff Boomerang.
the LouimilUe Courier-Journal (Ann.)
If Senator Voorhees’ argument Is good that
money paid out ot the Treasury, whather
justly or unjustly, prevents financial panic*,
the simpler philosophy would bo never to col
lect that money In the (lest place from the
people. It i* cheaper not tocollect taxes than
tneniwt tliem and redistribute them among
the people. And vet Senator Voorheea is not
known as a tarifT reformer.
The Confidence of the People.
From the .Vase York: Fretting Poet i/nd.)
Fortunately the great body of the Ameri
can people are little moved by the contortions
of the tarilT warriors. Thev have confidence
In the oatriotisin of Secretary Bavard. and in
the moderation and firmness of the President
and Congress. They have perhaps equal con
fidence in Ihe fairness of tbe English govern
ment. Thev know that two of the greatest
nations on earth, having no private animosi
ties or latent gruitres to satisfy, are in no
danger of coming into conflict over a barrel
of fish bait and a duty on cod.
BRIGHT BITS.
The bri-berry season in New York is not so
prolific as early indirations promised.— Bmton
Tranecript.
IF you make a habit of keeping live mice in
vrinr pockets, your loose change will be com
parstively safe from your enlerpr.sing wife.
— Life.
Ann he is never weaned —Judge says: “The
cowbov was born of the turf and suckled by
the winds of heaven.” Ob, no, neighbor. The
cowboy is no sucker. He is brought up on the
bottle. —Brc kiyi i Eagle.
These lias been a rebellion in Senegambta
and the government is down with nervous
prostration. Here i- a chance for the maga
z'n s to knock the bung out of another cask of
war literature,— Yonkert i? leette.
Lawyer (joyfully;—How do you feel now?
Condemned murderer (who has just been
reprieved)— As playful as achil i. my lioy.
Lawyer—islapping him on the back) —Ah. I
see; you have just skipped a rope.— The Judge.
A New Hampshire man kept his whisky
bottle at the bottom of the well, and when his
wife found ihc string and imdedit up be tried
•to make her believe that it belonged to a Chi
naman who bad bored through from the other
side of the earth,— Philadelphia Herald.
Young Wife— Now, George, iienr, if you
sav you’ll come home carlv I'll go to work and
have, a nice cake baked for yoto Yes. I will,
although T never tried to bake one before.
Young Hn-band—l’m sorry, dear, but I
can't come home carlv to-day. It will be im
possible. In fact, I think 1 will he a little
later tlißn usual. —Button Courier.
Two sweete girl graduates with golden pas,
E u li girl adorned with pecutar grace.
Would at one college make ve parting speech
Welch would bringdown ye tears on each
swi ete face:
But one girl’s pop did ye most pumuns make,
And then ye faculliee did water take.
— Exchange.
Unfounped Rumor—A small boy was de
tected bv a stingy farmer in one of bis cherry
trees. The farmer made the I toy come down,
and talked very seriously to him about the
sinfulness of sieall g. The boy answered In
dlgnai tly: "Now. you just count them cher
ries over again and see if there is one of ’em
missing before you insinuate that I took it.”—
T'ltae Siftinge.
Teacher—We should always try to be kind
and gentle, obert Did you ever purposely
wound and not feel the pangs of regret after
warti?
Robert—Yessem.
Teacher—What, intentionally? What have
you wounded. Robert, without feeling sorry
for it?
Robert—l have wounded my watch.— Tid-
Blte.
Mr. Eno—“What business did von follow
when in the States?
French Exile—l was a stock raiser.
Mr. Eno—<>h, in'ieed! Web, we can’t ad
mit a mere cattleman into oar circle, yon
know. We mu t draw the line somewhere.
French Exile—You don’t understand. I
raised niv stock fr im a safe with a jimmy.
Mr. Etio—Pardon me. my dear boy. Come
and dine with us this evening.— Lowell Citi
een.
A Woman’s Aim.—Charley—Clara—in
tears! Wh it is the matter?
Clara—oh. Charley—l don't mind telling
you. Arthur has lelt me in anger. It was a
trilling dispute, but—”
Whvdidn’t ion try to appease his wrath?
“1 did; I throw him a kiss as he passed the
window, but he did not see it.”
“Certainly not. You should have thrown it
out in the hall, anti then there would have
b>*en some chance of Us bitting him.”—Phila
delphia Call,
Thomas Kif.th and Mose Hedrick, Esq.,
have the thanks of the Star for cash.—Mr.
Ben Youug very kindlv settled up his sub
scription account while attending court.—
Mr. G. s. Wheeler subscribed for this paper
and paid up in advance a few days ago
Many thanks.--Mr. A'bert Cookman, J. M.
Waugh, V. 8. Armstrong, and others have
our thanks for remittances aud subscriptions.
—Mr. L. P. Regers came in Inst week and
t lircw down one dollar for I he Star on year.
That is the wav to make a newspaper hveiy.
—Clay County ( IF. Fa.) Star.
Petroleum .s the topic of the office, draw
ing-room am) workshop, and a great part of
our people think only of oil, talk oil. and
dream oil. .Miss Jennie Smith, the railfnad
evangelist, who has lieen laboring here, when
leaving the other day. ho roached at the
train Capl. V , a well-known operator.
who was standing on the platform, took him
by the hand, ns is her custom, and asked:
• Brother how are you? Are you on thero -k
or sand?" The Captain absent-mindedly hut
excitedly replied: ‘Wearo two bits in the
sand an'l gushing like blazes.”— Pitteburg
I Preee.
PERSONAL.
Knock Pratt, of Baltimore, counts his
millions with sn.cn lingers.
Thk Queen of It mmania is reported to be
dangerously ill with the dropsy.
Atr*+t*Toß!N. the railway president, has
been very,ill, but la uiis past-lbe crisis,
ilons eiSRFTr and Henry George will talk
on tne labor question at the Church Congress
m Cleveland.
-Mas. 1). T. 8. FtIXIU. mother ot the Irish
W'hPldngiOu. Is to move to Ity'dentowit for
Ui# summer.
Th* Washington ki'np, collected fertile
purpose of buying Mrs. Hancock a house, now
reaches nearly #10,OX).
Kx-I.inr. Gov. Uokshkimf.b arrived st
Weshi 'gton from New V rk uomtnv after
noon, dme I with the President Monday eve
ning
Kit %eeretary snd treasurer of
the Kdpoih.ro Iron Compauy, died unexpect
edly is tV'llro*wg*w Tureen.. He was me
yon ague. -ou of I'honi is Gacrett, the f minus
abolitionist of ante-war days.
AT the meeting of llie Royal Goograiihic.il
Society Monday evening the Marquis of
Lome," who presided, hau led to United states
Munster Phelps the founders’ medal, present
ed to the society by L ent. Grcetv.
Miss \Uki,X Grant. at a wedding in Paris,
wore a* one ameie of adornment it watch,
the back of which was formed of a single
est’s eye surrounded with diamonds, 1 wa
a reoeut gift from her future husband, laird
Cairns.
Mrs.-John A. Loo an in her Washington
house lias an old-fashioned rag-curpcl on ihe
stairs snd picturesque ludisn li . ols for
lain eras. On one other parlor inauielslss
In in tire 11 l n made of South American mt.lbcr
ry tree berk.
Oliver 'Vksiiei.i. llomra will shortly give
a reception to his lx>ndnu friends During
hie stay in England lie will visit Tennyson,
who In ill at home, and will attend dinners to
be suecusstvelr given bv the lending medicals
and Kdwm Arnold, Robert Browning, and
filler poets.
BgAi'il. the champion sculler says that he
feels confident of best! g Uaalau for the
world’’ rtinmptnnsliip, and tha be will row
llsnlan Individually, but not iair ihnn Au
gust. lie now weighs over It*! pounds, but
will row at lac pounds, the same as when be
i detested II solan in Australis.
A STORY ON ENDICOTT.
A Heal Estate Transactlou which Afford
ed Amusement at the Capital,
From the Chicago .Yews .
Washington, May2s.—Secretary Endicott’s
friends are poking a go and and -al of fun at him
which eventually causes him a good deal of
annoyance. It grows out of a real estate
transaction, which came about in this way:
Adjoining the secretary’s handsome residence
is a corner lot with a narrow frontage of
15 feet and a depth of 100. Tho lot is too small
for building purposes and the owner has
vainlv endeavored to have the secretary take
it off his hands at a valuation of $2 50 a square
foot, Mr. Endicott, however, would only
agree to pay 42 a foot, although good building
lots in that vidnity really command $3 50 ad
$4 a square foot. Last week the owner ad
vertise 1 the lot for sale. There were only a
few persons in attendance, one of whom was
the secretary. To the latter's surprise the
first offer was 42 50 a foot. The bidder was a
colored man. a well-known hack driver of
tome means. The secretary, not to be out
done, i-aised the price until it finally reached
“Look here!” said Mr. Endicott, turning to
the negro, what do yon want of this property?
(You’re bidding it up out of all proportion to
its value.”
“Well, I’ll tell you, boss,” said the man and
brother, sinking his voice to a confidential
whisper, “my wife is a powerful aristocratic
colored lady. Since I began to accumulate
money she’s very anxious to get into good so
ciety, and she thought if we’d move uo here
among you ricli white folks it’d help her
amazingly. I’m bu\in’ the lot on her a
- I’m gwine to put up a house on it aud
entertain in high s'vle.”
As the negr.• proceeded the Secretary’s face
grew pale with anger.
“Do you suppose I’ll have a lot of crazy mg
gers roystering all night alongside of my
hoitse? Not bv a d—d sight.” and he raised
tbe price to 44 on the next call.
“That's too rich for my .hood.” shouted the
negro, with a laugh, as he withdrew from the
contest. The lot was accordingly knocked
down ro the seeretarv at 46,000, for which he
immediately drew his check. As he stepped
around the corner to enter his carriage he
espied the late owner of the lot and the negro
in a whispered consultation, and these were
tbe words which greeted his oars:
“You did that very cleverly, Mose,” said
the former, handing the hack man a bunch of
bills. “That little speech about society cost
the old duffer a clear thousand extra. There’s
4100 for your trouble ”
As the secretary drove sadly down street
his mind was oppressed with the painful
thought that, in some way he had been the
victim of an ingenious sell.
An English Opinion of Dr. Holmes.
From the L ndon Telegraph.
It would be a difficult and invidious—and.
we are glad to think, therefore, that It is a
wholly unnecessary—task to attempt to fix
Dr. Holme-’ place in the ranks of American
men of letters. That, on any reasonable esti
mate of his claims, his place must be a high
one is too clear, we think, for dispute. He
possesses what without disparagement to
transatlantic literature we may say is a rare
characteristic among its professors—the qual
ity of originality. Tue fact that but few of
her predece-sors or contemporaries can lay
claim to this quality is no (liscre lit to them.
It is but natural that a literature exposed to
earn powerful paternal influences as is this
young offshoot from the veuerable English tree
of thought and language shou and for a long time
be mutative, and imitative alone. Wheu we
consider how masterfully a great poet indi
vidually affects all youthful poetic minds
within its range, we need not be surprised to
see the same phenomenon repeat itself on s
nation 1 sca'e, and with its master and the
disciples represented respectively by whole
coinintinitiesof men. The test, however, of
genius in the individual applies ilself pretty
speedily w ith the advance of unaturer years.
If there is ’ anything in” the aspiring bard,
he will soon outgrow the intluenees which and and
“his green, nnkDowi"g youth engage.” and
dare to be himself aloue. If there is nothing
in him. the echo will remain an echo to the
end of his days.
And what i* true of the individual Is true of
the nation. When a genu me litterateur is des
tined to grow up among the descendant race,
it will, as the term of separate national life
extends, begin—among the more vigorous in
tellects of the race, at any rate—to "how signs
of emancipation from the influence of the
parentsiock Such signs are not wanting in
the liieratu'-e of America, and where they
are to be found they are marked enough to
afford it the fairest promise of a brilliant fu
ture; but as yet it must be owned—it is
owned, indeed, by the best American critics
themselves—that these signs are compara
tively few in number. American writers of
distinct and undeniable originality would not
take long, even if wecombine poets with prose
writers, to enumerate. Edgar Poe, Nathaniel
Hawth' rne aud Ralph Waldo Emerson—
though the claim of the la-t
to originality has been questioned,
and lus debt to Carlvle for certain
qualities of thought, apart from the mode of
expression, must be admitted—these would,
perbaus, almost exhaust the list of departed
American writers who possess the distinction
to which we have referred. Pre-eminent
among still living litterateurs stand the names
of Mr. Lowell and Dr. Holmes—men w'o
combine the culture of the Old World with the
indefinable and incommunicable spirit of the
N w Both alike are masters of our common
language, but each la lo the tips of his finger
an .American of the Americaus. Men of such
gifts are not produced every day in any coun
try,but the originality, or rather the nation
ality, which be ongs to them will, we doubt
not, lieeome a more and more commonly dif
fus and cnar-cteristicof their successors when
the lime conies for the lounger of them to
hand on the torch which they have so worthily
borne.
Jones of Nevada.
IVaehington Letter in the (jalreeton JVsies.
Jones, of Nevada, is one ot the character*
of the Senate. He is a thorough Bohemian
and good tedow. He is an able man, too, ami
an invet. rate speculator. He is worth mil
lions one week and dead broke the next, but
lie always manages to keep happy. Jones
tells the following goon story on himself:
“I’ve always believed in Providence since
one dav, years ago, when I was Sheriff in
NhHsta county. Cal. It was a roaster of a
day, and X was returning on horseback from
a liunt tor some sluice robbers, [was slowly
following a faint mountain trail and the run
was just baking me and the h oso was in a
lallier. I came under the shade of a big rock
and thought it would he pleasant to get off
and have a smoke. I sat and .wn on a cool
boulder, cut a pipeful from niv ping, filled my
pipe and felt for a match. Well, there wasn’t
a match anywhere in my pockets. I searched
and searched, but there was no match. 1 tell
you, I fell worse over that disappointment than
I’ve done since when tile market lias gone
back on me and hit me for a hundred thou
sand at a clip. But while 1 sat on Iti • t boulder
wrauped In gloom, whnt d’ve suppose mv eya
suddenly fell iaV A match, hy heaven, lying
on the "trail not six Seet awav from me! I
used it—though I was a Hlt.le afraid to touch
Hat first-atid had my smoke 8o you needn’t
worry about how this political tight is voing
to come out A man for whom Providence
will go to the trouble of providing a match
for a smoke in the wilds of the Sierra Neva
da*. where man’s foot scarcely evetreads,
isn’t likely to get left when it comes to a com
monplace lltile thing like being elected to the
L'uiled states Senate. Ever since that lime.''
continued the Comstocker, “I’ve never >e
fused a dollar to a parson, and have generally
done my best In a quiet, unobstrusive way, to
make myself solid with the people who have
the pultun Providence”
lllaaater.
From the B tton Buitjet.
A hole in the pocket’s a very bad thing.
And bring, a hoy trouble faster
Than auytiling under the un, I think;
My mother, ahe culls It disaster.
Ft all In one dav,
1 lost, 1 may sav.
Through a hole not "big as a dollar
A n"tnber of things.
Including some rings
From a chain Fido wore as a collar.
My knife, a steel pen. a nice little note
That my dear cousin Annie had sent me;
TUe boy who found that plane! ton to his hat,
And tries all the time to torment me.
I'd lost anew dime.
That very same tune.
But it lodged In the heel of mr stocking,
A nd one thing la * do.
Which to you I confide.
Though If oar you may think it quite shocking.
The doctor hud made sonc nice little pilla
For me to take home to the babv;
But when I reached there I was quite In de
spair;
The,! had slipped through my pocket, it may
Aunt Snllle, she.
As coot as can be,
Said * bole in a boy's reputation
la harder to cure.
And worse to endure.
Thao all porkeD unsound in the nation.
Still, a hole In the pocket's a very had thing,
And I’m sure a real cause of disaster;
But baby la well, so you never must tell;
I’erbapa be got well all the feeler,
GWINNCT Hon AKP,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Of the 25 friends for whom Gen. Grant
left directions that a free copy of hie book
•hou and ue given four have died eincelaet sum
mer.
Mr. Tuppkr’s biography notes that he
won a university prize for a theological essay
in his younger days in a contest with Mr.
Gladstone.
The ancient Abbey of Calder, Cumberland,
Eng., is undergoing restoration, aud the work
is exciting much attention. Several interest
ing discoveries have been made, the most re
markable being that of a massive stone cofiin
in the church. I belongs to the twelfth or
thirteenth century, and contained the body of
a man over 6 feet in length. Two more
bodies have since been found.
The IfeoN Pipe Works to be erected at
Cha'tan oga, Tenn,, will be one of the largest
manufacturing establishments of tho kind in
the world. It is to be built by the proprietors
of the Louisville, St. Louis, Cincinnati and
Newport Iron Pipe Works, and is to manu
facture not only for this country, hut for Ja
pan and China and other foreign countries.
Cneaper freight rate*, cheap iron and other
advantages moved to the venture.
An orpin ary fight is, it seems, too tame
an affair for the patrons of the prize-ring at
Leicester, Eng., so last week an encounter
was arranged near that city between a cham
pion with one arm and another with one eye.
The police, who seem to have known all
about the fixture, dispersed the first meeting,
which was fixed for 4 o’clock on Sunday
morning in the suburbs of Leicester. The af
fair, however, came oil'in a neighboring vil
lage the same evening, when the one-armed
man succeeded in closing bis opponent’s sin
gle eye, and was declared the winner.
A six-inch- square section of the cuticle
of Emma Jacobs, once one of Philadelphia’s
most notorious females, is, if a Chicago tan
ner can be balieved, in that city, transformed
into a piece of coarse, buff-colored leather.
4 dispatch from Chicago atates that William
H Pennington, foreman for a firm of hide
lealers, has tbe relic, about which he says
“l can vouch for the f act that it is from the
body of the noted Emma Jacobs, of Philadel
phia. It was sent me in the raw state by one
if tne physicians who dissected the remains.
I had it tanned in Milwaukee. It was not
4>roner v cured, but that was the fault of
those who put it up at the college.”
From 3 o’clock Monday afternoon until (9
iu the evening Miss Sophia Earle received her
friends at Dr. H. W. Adams’ house at Hack
ensark N. J., and proved that her 100 years
of life had failed to destroy sight or mental
faculties. During the afternoon fourgenera
lions of Earles called upon her, to whom she
recoui ted many events of her life. She told
what a belle she was when living in New
York with her brother John, who was Major
of Artillery, and she kept her hearers in con
tinued laughter with witty sallies and re
partees In au adjoining room a lunch in
keeping with the occasion was spread upon a
very old table. There were cups and saucers
200 years old, many rare and quaint dishes,
and a heavy solid silver nunch ladle that was
as old as Miss Earle. The event was one of
great interest.-and attracted visitors from far
and near. Ihe general expression wa* that
Miss Earle was the most animated centenarian
of the century.
Pot fishermen have for several seasons
habitually used dynamite for killing fish in
the waters of Northwestern Pennsylvania.
By means of this destructive agent thousands
of trout, bass, pickerel, and other game fish
have been killed to every dozen captured with
hook and line. Persons engaged in the illegal
practice take great risks, and many nariow
e-cipes from death while handling the bombs
are mown. The first fatal casualty resulting
from the practice occurred on Sunday R. E.
smith and Ames Hougiitailing, of Carman,
Elk countv, went to a strenm noted for its
trout for the purpose of di-charging a cart
ridge of dyn imite in the wa'er. Houehtaii
ing was 'citing the cartridge down to the
water. Smith stood near him The bomb
exploded. Roth of Houghtailing’s arms weie
biown off to the elbow. One cheek wis
carried away and one eye destroyed. He was
alive at last accounts, hut bis recovery is im
possible. One ot Smith's legs was almost de
nuded of flesh, and his face was terrtb y
lacerated and disfigured. His recovery is in
doubt.
Mahogany has become the leading and
fashionable furniture and cabinet wood in
this country, as it is now and ha* been for two
centuries in England and Europe. It is al
ready largely used in honse trimmings and
doors in onr large cities. It is a wood which
does not crack, warp, swell, or shrink, and is
famous for holding glue. It improves with
age in color and tone, and therefore gets more
beautiful as it gets older, whereas other
precious woods look their best when
new. so great has the in
crease in the nse of mahogany
be come in the past few yearß in this countrr
th itmany manufacturers, especially in the
Western states, have been making goods of
cherry, birch, arid other cheap and inferior
woods, and staining them to imitate ma
hogany; but these imitation goods very soon
begin to fade - w-eli as to crack, warn, or
shrink, to the disgust of the purchaser.
Walnut in rapidly going out of fashion, and
as this wood is now very scarce, and getting
more so every year, its use is necessarily
diminishing, and mahogany is taking its
place, as also of rosewood. Mahogany should
not he varnished till it has grown dark to suit
one's taste, as varnish is said to stop the na
tural coloring process.
A Nbw York correspondent says; We are
promised a genuine literary sensation some
time between now and the Ist of July, the
Historical Society having invited Ignatius
Donnelly, of Wisconsin, to deliver a lecture
before them upon the remarkable cipher
which be claim* to have discovered -after
live year- ’ hard labor—in shakspesro's works,
showing that my Lord Bacon and not “the
bard of Avon” was the real author of the
immortal plavs, which mankind generally
have been crediting to the latter during the
past >.O years, more or less. If Mr. Donnelly
accepts, as no doubt he will, the lecture will
be delivered before the society just prior to
Ins departure to England, where, it would
appear, he has made arrangements
for the publication of his extra r
d inary revelations. The recent arti
cle on tho subject in the “Nineteenth
Century,” by Mr. Percy Wallace, no doubt
moved tho Historical Society to invite Mr.
Donnelly tocomc before them"and “tell all he
knows,” but It is a melancholy reflection that,
if the author of “Atlantis” and “K .gnarok”
makes out his case our “divine William” will
be ruthlessly shoved from his pedestal, and
•aU the honors” that are due to “Hamlet,”
“Macbeth” aud the rest of them will have to
be finally awarded to (see Macaulay) “the
brightest, best and meanest of mankind.”
Another effect is sure to follow the revival of
the chrome,controversy loutsideof Mr. Don
nelly’s alegod discoveries) as to “who wrote
Shakespeare?” which is revivedevery quarter
of a century on an average, bat which gen
erally ends like one of the chapters in “Ras
selas.” with “a conclusion, In which nothing
tsconctuded.”
A CCBIOtTS lI.tiTSTBATION of carelessness
on the part of the officials at the New Y'ork
Morgue is narrated: An old man named
Hahn, a German, went to the almshouse aud
died there about three months ago. Iu order
to spare hlsson the mortification of knowing
Him he had becu dependent upon public
chant for support, he informed lue authori
ties that lie had no relatives whatever, aud
wlun he died, therefore, his body wa- in
terred in Power’s field. It happened that t
the s une time there was among the dead scut
down to the Morgue the body of tuotnrr lm*-
hotiae inmate, un Irishman, by name Met ul
lough. K.iends were found to rescue the
body ol the latter, and on the day Halm was
laid away on Hart’s island the other
roan was interred at Bt. Mi
chael’s cemetery, at Astoria. Hahn’s
son only hr art! of the death of Ills father a
few days ago. and Immediately toot sicp. to
have Ins remains d.siuterred.' Securing tho
ni ecs-ary perm t he proceeded to liar's !x|.
nod wlili an undertaker. The pine -lux wnh
the tar “John Hahn” on, sure enough, was
there, but ou opening It the body of a big man.
fully six feet high, and with thick hair and
beard, came to light. The Junior Hahn was
astounded. Inasmuch as his father was at
least 5 inches shorter than the man in tho
colli i, aud was bald and boarrtlcs°. A mistake
ha', boon made, aud inquiries ma te it probable
that the liodi s of McCullough and 11.dm had
in some way become mi'ed and ex
changed at Hahn, therefore,
must he burl and In the grave of McCullough,
in hi. Michael's Cemetery, so thither wo t the
soil, and caused the supposed grave of the lat
ter to lie opened. But it uld not cootain
Hahn's body. Then as many as a dozen graves
were open and in succession with a like disao
poiudi g resii'l. and at lad the sou gave up
tin'search in di-gunt. and repair'd m the san
itary liea lunar lei’., where he told hissiort t>,
the officials in the hope that they would he p
him to seeoinpli-h his purpo-e. At last ae.
counts the poor man was lntoting up the un
dertaker who had bored McCullough, In the
sxpectatiou that possibly he might know
Ijiacihlug about it.
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